WHY DEMS LOVED BIDEN’S BOORISH BEHAVIOR: Commentary’s Jonathan S. Tobin writes:

The problem here is not just that presidents and would-be commanders-in-chief must appear presidential. It is that the liberal base of the president’s party is so filled with anger and contempt for Republicans that they can’t abide even a show of civility from their champions.

Though President Obama may decide to show up and demonstrate a bit more involvement and passion in the upcoming debates, he is unlikely to satisfy his supporters’ need to bash the GOP. Though liberals are saying Biden has stopped the bleeding begun last week in Denver, the president’s failure to misbehave in the same manner is bound to raise the same complaints next week.

The veep is generally hired to be the snarling attack dog (See also: LBJ, Agnew, Gore, Cheney and now Biden), to allow the president to appear, well, presidential in comparison. On the other hand, as Kyle Smith of the New York Post writes, “If Obama thinks he’s going to turn the tables by being a colossal jerk in the next debate, well….I certainly hope that’s what he’s thinking, and I do believe he is.”